KukuiFanatic501
Well-Known Member
Just thought about this. Does anyone feel like that instead of Gohs goal of catching everyone Pokémon up to mew, it should’ve been him catching every Pokémon up to Arceus? Making it a mirror reference to Legends Arceus catching every Pokémon before meeting Arceus?
Now, I’m not saying they should’ve went with Arceus instead of Mew just because he’s the god pokemon. Rather, I feel it’s not a coincidence that they gave him the whole “Gotta catch ‘em all!” goal before coming across the Pokémon he wants most of all in the same series where Legends Arceus has the player on a mission to get every Pokémon in his yo before coming across Arceus again. In terms of goals, it makes Goh quite the modern day Rei or Akari.
In addition, Mew has honestly not felt like an important part of Journeys for a while now outside of hype. Despite so much of Gohs arc being centered around Mew, and his current goal being Gary, Tokio, the two Urishifu trainers, and other participants being so fixated on fighting for the chance to fight the damn psychic kitty, they don’t give us moments of Mew appearing every now and then. Not even moments of Goh interacting with Mew (besides when seeing it as a kid in Sumer camp). All of the characters in prior series who interacted with legendaries at least got good character interactions with them, particularly the ones where the legendaries have important involvements in the plot
-Ash and Nebby
-Ash and Poipole
-Max and Deoxys
-Bonnie and Zygarde
-Ash, Dawn and Brock each forming a bond with the Lake guardians
-Ash and his friends with Celebi in the Pokémon Ranger episodes
-Lillie and Nebby / Magearna
-Gladion and Sivally
-Mallow and Shaymin
The list goes on. But Goh gets the short end of the stick in this regard, even this far into Journeys with it ending soon.
Arceus on the other hand has gotten more actual relevant screentime for its involvement in JN. He got referenced and (sort of) made an appearance in the Dialga-Palkia special and made an appearance in the Legend Arceus Amazon specials at the time Legends gets released. And ironically, Goh actually gets to meet Arceus. Now sure, Goh meeting Mew in small moments arguably would’ve sortve undermined part of the purpose of Project Mew, but getting permission to meet Mew at least every now and then before PM even became a thing wouldn’t have diminished it’s significance. If anything, it would help boost it and give Goh more of a confidence boost to fight harder to get on the exploration team for PM.
Not to mention that instead of making Project Mew, with Arceus they could’ve adapted something like the Galaxy team in modern day (barring the obvious Team Galactic) and still make it research based like Gohs doing now.
The only difficulty I can see with this is trying to fit in the whole “first ever Pokédex” objective like the MCs goal in Hisui was, but the anime could’ve also spun it so that Goh got Rotoms goal and make the worlds most unique Pokédex by catching and researching data on every Pokémon up to Arceus, so that the dynamic between doing that doesn’t change much from what Project Mew is doing.
That and of course Goh “catching” Arceus would be….pretty controversial, but if Legends is anything to go by, earning the right to catch “Arceus” (aka, a clone of himself and not the actual thing) wouldn’t mess with the idea of Arceus being unobtainable.
What does everyone else think? Am I reading too much into this or does my proposal seem viable?
Now, I’m not saying they should’ve went with Arceus instead of Mew just because he’s the god pokemon. Rather, I feel it’s not a coincidence that they gave him the whole “Gotta catch ‘em all!” goal before coming across the Pokémon he wants most of all in the same series where Legends Arceus has the player on a mission to get every Pokémon in his yo before coming across Arceus again. In terms of goals, it makes Goh quite the modern day Rei or Akari.
In addition, Mew has honestly not felt like an important part of Journeys for a while now outside of hype. Despite so much of Gohs arc being centered around Mew, and his current goal being Gary, Tokio, the two Urishifu trainers, and other participants being so fixated on fighting for the chance to fight the damn psychic kitty, they don’t give us moments of Mew appearing every now and then. Not even moments of Goh interacting with Mew (besides when seeing it as a kid in Sumer camp). All of the characters in prior series who interacted with legendaries at least got good character interactions with them, particularly the ones where the legendaries have important involvements in the plot
-Ash and Nebby
-Ash and Poipole
-Max and Deoxys
-Bonnie and Zygarde
-Ash, Dawn and Brock each forming a bond with the Lake guardians
-Ash and his friends with Celebi in the Pokémon Ranger episodes
-Lillie and Nebby / Magearna
-Gladion and Sivally
-Mallow and Shaymin
The list goes on. But Goh gets the short end of the stick in this regard, even this far into Journeys with it ending soon.
Arceus on the other hand has gotten more actual relevant screentime for its involvement in JN. He got referenced and (sort of) made an appearance in the Dialga-Palkia special and made an appearance in the Legend Arceus Amazon specials at the time Legends gets released. And ironically, Goh actually gets to meet Arceus. Now sure, Goh meeting Mew in small moments arguably would’ve sortve undermined part of the purpose of Project Mew, but getting permission to meet Mew at least every now and then before PM even became a thing wouldn’t have diminished it’s significance. If anything, it would help boost it and give Goh more of a confidence boost to fight harder to get on the exploration team for PM.
Not to mention that instead of making Project Mew, with Arceus they could’ve adapted something like the Galaxy team in modern day (barring the obvious Team Galactic) and still make it research based like Gohs doing now.
The only difficulty I can see with this is trying to fit in the whole “first ever Pokédex” objective like the MCs goal in Hisui was, but the anime could’ve also spun it so that Goh got Rotoms goal and make the worlds most unique Pokédex by catching and researching data on every Pokémon up to Arceus, so that the dynamic between doing that doesn’t change much from what Project Mew is doing.
That and of course Goh “catching” Arceus would be….pretty controversial, but if Legends is anything to go by, earning the right to catch “Arceus” (aka, a clone of himself and not the actual thing) wouldn’t mess with the idea of Arceus being unobtainable.
What does everyone else think? Am I reading too much into this or does my proposal seem viable?